localcovid19now: an updated software to map local Covid-19 case data published in Journal of Open Source Software
localcovid19now is an R package that allows users to process and map Covid-19 infections in subnational locations using a variety of data including population estimates, Covid-19 case data and spatial geometry in order to better estimate Covid-19 risk. localcovid19now...
Dr. Elaine Luo Visits From UNC-Charlotte
Dr. Elaine Luo is an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte and head of the Microbial Ecology Lab. Dr. Luo’s research aims to address how microbes impact marine ecology and carbon cycling. Dr. Luo...
New Paper Assessing Uptake of Recent Covid-19 Bivalent Booster Published in CDC’s MMWR
There has been a low uptake of the new (available since early September ’22) bivalent booster COVID-19 vaccine in the USA (~15% of the population as of 10th January 2023). In this work, we set to ask the reasons why people are, or are not, electing to take the...
Quan Receives the Thomas L. Gossage International Enrichment Scholarship
Quan (King) Nguyen, a chemical & biomolecular engineering undergraduate that has been in the Weitz Group since 2020, has recently been selected by the Student Awards Committee of the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering as the recipient of the Thomas...
The group welcomes Tapan Goel
The group recently officially welcomed Tapan Goel, a new postdoctoral researcher. Tapan is a biophysicist broadly interested in how complex behaviors emerge in biological systems from relatively simple “inter-particle” interactions. To answer this question, Tapan uses...
Quan Accepted into the Vietnam Education Foundation Program
Quan (King) Nguyen, a chemical & biomolecular engineering undergraduate that has been in the Weitz Group since 2020, has recently been accepted into the Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) 2.0 program. Created by U.S. Congress in 2003 to “strengthen the...
The group welcomes two new Ph.D. students
We are delighted to announce that the Weitz Grouprecently officially welcomed two Ph.D. students, Akash Arani and Raunak Dey. Akash is a first-year Quantitative Biosciences Ph.D. student in the School of Biological Sciences, while Raunak is a second-year Physics Ph.D....
Siya Xie Joins the NIH T32 InQuBATE Training Program
Congratulations to Quantitative Biosciences Ph.D. student and Weitz Group member Siya Xie for joining the NIH T32 Integrative and Quantitative Biosciences Accelerated Training Environment (InQuBATE). As an affiliated scholar, Siya will participate in InQuBATE’s...
Daniel Muratore to Join the Santa Fe Institute as an Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellow
Recent Quantitative Biosciences Ph.D. graduate and former Weitz Group member Daniel Muratore is set to begin the Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) this September. As an Omidyar Fellow, Murature will have the opportunity to complete an up...
Health and Environment Allied Leadership (HEAL) Fellows Program officially announced – apply by July 12
The Health and Environment Allied Leadership (HEAL) Fellows Program is a NEW opportunity for Georgia Tech graduate students and postdocs in any GT college who are driven to make an impact in human and environmental health. Led by Dr. Gabi Steinbach and Prof. Weitz,...
Daniel successfully defends his dissertation, earning his Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences.
On June 9th, 2022, Daniel Muratore successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Emergence of Marine Biogeochemical Dynamics Across Scales Drive by Complex Microbial and Viral Communities,’’ earning his Ph.D. in quantitative biosciences. Congratulations,...
The group welcomes Siya Xie
The group recently officially welcomed first-year Quantitative Biosciences Ph.D. student Siya Xie. Siya is excited to begin research focusing the factors influencing the stoichiometric characteristics of marine bacteria, such as the carbon to nitrogen ratio in genome...